Solaris Patching - News and Best Practice

Will you app work on Solaris 11 ? New Pre-Flight Checker tool available

My colleague, Stefan Schneider, and his ISV Engineering team have released a new version of their Pre-Flight Checker tool which can be used to check whether apps will work without modification on Solaris 11.

1. Fully globalized product, currently with support for English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese 2. Now detects issues due to static linking of system libs3. Now detects mutex alignment issues4. Now also have kernel checker to check usage of private kernel interfaces (binary as well source scanner) 5.
An improved script scanner to flag issues due to usage of removed,
relocated commands as well as issues due to usage of ksh93 in Solaris 11 (
instead of the old ksh88 in Solaris 10 and earlier )

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